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Evangelist Jimmy Swaggart hospitalized
WAFB -TV9 ^ | June 16, 2025 | Staff

Posted on 06/16/2025 6:00:22 AM PDT by Red Badger

By WAFB Staff Published: Jun. 15, 2025 at 9:14 PM CDT|Updated: 9 hours ago BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart went into cardiac arrest at his home Sunday morning and is in intensive care at a hospital, his son said Sunday evening.

Jimmy Swaggart, 90, is one of the most well-known televangelists in the world.

He is the founder of Jimmy Swaggart Ministries.

His son Donnie says Swaggart went into cardiac arrest around 8 o’clock Sunday morning and “has never regained consciousness.”

He said paramedics responded to Swaggart’s home and were able to get a heartbeat before rushing him to a local hospital.

“Right now he is in ICU and without a miracle, without a miracle, his time will be short,” Donnie Swaggart told the congregation during a special prayer service held Sunday evening at their church in Baton Rouge.

“We’re going to give the Lord an opportunity to work,” he added.

A native of Ferriday, Louisiana, Swaggart also founded the Jimmy Swaggart Bible College.

He is the senior pastor of the Family Worship Center, located off of Bluebonnet Boulevard in Baton Rouge.


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1 posted on 06/16/2025 6:00:22 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

This is second post....See Yesterday


2 posted on 06/16/2025 6:01:55 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Red Badger

Cardiac arrest is not something you usually recover from. It’s different than a “heart attack” or MI. The lack of oxygen to the brain will damage you in short order.


3 posted on 06/16/2025 6:13:48 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Vermont Lt

“Cardiac arrest is not something you usually recover from”

Not at 90 you don’t.


4 posted on 06/16/2025 6:17:15 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: Red Badger

An imperfect man because none but Christ is perfect. His music greatly blessed me.


5 posted on 06/16/2025 6:31:31 AM PDT by vespa300
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To: V_TWIN

Heck being 90 alone not something a lot recover from


6 posted on 06/16/2025 6:32:05 AM PDT by Kartographer (“We Mutually Pledge To Each Other, Our Lives, Our Fortunes And Our Sacred Honor”)
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To: All

I seem to remember a scandal involving him and prostitutes. Okay several scandals. He was really into their company.


7 posted on 06/16/2025 6:34:22 AM PDT by BipolarBob (I don't have any bad habits. I'm good at them all.)
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To: Red Badger

When you’re 90 its day to day anyway.


8 posted on 06/16/2025 6:58:32 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Hour to hour............


9 posted on 06/16/2025 6:59:16 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Georgia Girl 2
Who will sing and play piano at Swaggart's funeral with Jerry Lee Lewis and Micky Gilley already passed away? Distant cousin Jesse Duplantis?


10 posted on 06/16/2025 7:27:09 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Red Badger

Just send in another $500 and God will provide a miracle...


11 posted on 06/16/2025 7:38:11 AM PDT by pburiak (You really think we can vote our way out of this? That's so cute...)
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To: Red Badger

A 90 year old getting prolonged CPR.
Yikes.


12 posted on 06/16/2025 7:41:49 AM PDT by GnuThere
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To: Red Badger

I think he’s cheated death for a few years by now.


13 posted on 06/16/2025 8:10:45 AM PDT by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left?)
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To: fwdude

Him and Oral Roberts can have a chat soon.............


14 posted on 06/16/2025 8:13:48 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

Swaggart was huge back in 1980’s when televangelists were at their peak, then it turned out he spent a lot of time in the company of prostitutes, and not to minister and help them rise from their depravity as Jesus preached. Nope he was just employing their more carnal services. He repented and asked for forgiveness, but the damage was done, though he kept his ministry he was never a fraction of what he was before.


15 posted on 06/16/2025 8:26:11 AM PDT by apillar
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To: Red Badger

I didn’t know he was still alive.....


16 posted on 06/16/2025 10:16:40 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: Red Badger

“We’re going to give the Lord an opportunity to work,” he added.”

As if God needs human acquiessence to perform anything. Mainstream Christianity constantly lies about who truly has freewill.

It has never been man.....


17 posted on 06/16/2025 10:29:45 AM PDT by Hardshell
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To: metmom

I don’t think he is at this time..............


18 posted on 06/16/2025 10:33:07 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

Well Mickey and Jerry Lee have already past so he will be the final to die!


19 posted on 06/16/2025 11:14:02 AM PDT by longhorn too
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